China and the West : Music, Representation, and Reception / Hon-Lun Yang, Michael Saffle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yang, Hon-Lun, editor.

Saffle, Michael, 1946- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

China and the West: Music, Representation, and Reception is the first book to explore how Chinese and Western musical materials and traditions- those involving instruments, melodies, rhythms, staged diversions (including operas and musical comedies), concert works, film scores, and digital recordings of several kinds- have gradually moved closer together and become increasingly accepted, as well as exploited, in Asia as well as Europe and North America. Although aimed in large part at a scholarly audience, China and the West should appeal to general readers of many kinds: those interested in politics, cultural history and theory, gender studies, sociology, theater, and media studies as well as musical composition and performance of classical as well as traditional and popular kinds.

Contents:

Part 1 Chinese-Western Historical Encounters and Musical Exchanges

The Pipe Organ of the Baroque Era in China / David Francis Urrows Urrows, David Francis 21

From Colonial Modernity to Global Identity: The Shanghai Municipal Orchestra / Hon-Lun Yang Yang, Hon-Lun 49

Calafati, Sou-Chong, Lang Lang, and Li Wei: Two Hundred Years of "the Chinese" in Austrian Music, Drama, and Film / Cornelia Szabó-Knotik Szabó-Knotik, Cornelia 65

Part 2 "Staged" Encounters and Theatrical Representations of Chineseness

Eastern Fantasies on Western Stages: Chinese-Themed Operettas and Musical Comedies in Turn-of-the-Last- Century London and New York / Michael Saffle Saffle, Michael 87

The Many Lives of Flower Drum Song (1957-2002): Negotiating Chinese American Identity in Print, on Stage, and on Screen / James Deaville Deaville, James 119

Deterritorializing Spirituality: Intercultural Encounters in Iron Road / Mary Ingraham Ingraham, Mary 137

Part 3 Chinese-Western Musical Encounters and Intercultural Compositions

Chinese Opera Percussion from Model Opera to Tan Dun / Nancy Yunhwa Rao Rao, Nancy Yunhwa 163

Spanning the Timbral Divide: Insiders, Outsiders, and Novelty in Chinese-Western Fusion Concertos / John Winzenburg Winzenburg, John 186

Combinations of the Familiar and the Strange: Aspects of Asian-Dutch Encounters in Recent Music History / Emile Wennekes Wennekes, Emile 205

Part 4 Ideological Encounters and the Reception of Chinese Music and Ensembles in the West

The Shanghai Quartet's Chinasong: A Musical Counterpart to English-Language Cultural Revolution Memoirs? / Eric Hung Hung, Eric 223

Contested Imaginaries of Collective Harmony: The Poetics and Politics of "Silk Road" Nostalgia in China and the West / Harm Langenkamp Langenkamp, Harm 243

When a Great Nation Emerges: Chinese Music in the World / Frederick Lau Lau, Frederick 265.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2016 Front List Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100389

ISBN:

9780472130313

OCLC:

974947641

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access